The Seer [Digipak] - CD

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The Seer [Digipak] - CD


Personnel: Michael Gira (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica); Bill Rieflin (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Christoph Hahn (vocals, electric guitar, lap steel guitar); Norman Westberg (vocals, electric guitar); Thor Harris (vocals, hammer dulcimer, clarinet, piano, vibraphone, drums, percussion); Phil Puleo (vocals, hammer dulcimer, drums, percussion); Christopher Pravdica (vocals, bass guitar); Kevin McMahon (electric guitar); Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak (mandolin, electric mandolin, clarinet); Eszter Balint (violin); Jane Scarpatoni (cello); Birgit Cassis Staudt (accordion).Audio Mixer: Kevin McMahon. Recording information: Andere Baustelle, Berlin, Germany; Marcata Studio, Gardiner, NY; Studio P4, Berlin, Germany; Trout Recording, Brooklyn, NY. Michael Gira claims that Swans' The Seer took 30 years to make: "it's the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I've ever made, been involved in or imagined." This is not hyperbole. Two years after My Father Will Lead Me Up to a Rope to the Sky, The Seer is the most sprawling, ambitious, thoughtfully conceived and tightly performed recording in the band's catalog - also not hyperbole - over two discs, two hours, and 11 tracks. And it is not an endurance test, but an argument for compulsive listening. It's an exquisitely wrought journey through post-rock, electronic soundscapes, haunting acoustic songs, punishing noise, and (lots of) percussion. While the extremes of Filth are rare here, their roots are clearly present, as is everything else, from Cop to White Light from the Mouth of Infinity to Soundtracks for the Blind to Angels of Light. The previous musical incarnations of Swans have been honed to sharpened points, carving new musical and sonic terrain from rock into an intensely focused whole. "Lunacy" opens it with tight, seamless repetition and builds to shattering crescendo as a prolonged intr.




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